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Re: Oracle 8 root exploit

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve D'Angona)
Thu Nov 18 14:10:01 1999

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Date:         Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:50:16 -0500
Reply-To: "Steve D'Angona" <dangona@NIST.GOV>
From: "Steve D'Angona" <dangona@NIST.GOV>
X-To:         Chris Calabrese <chris_calabrese@YAHOO.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

If you check the readme from Oracle it says you should use the 8.0.5
version of the patch with 8.1.5 until 8.1.6 comes out.

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Chris Calabrese wrote:

> However, Intelligent Agent 8.1.5 (the version Brock
> reported on) does not have a patch available for it.
> This is pretty strange considering that there's a
> patch for 8.0.5 and that other 8.0.6 and 8.1.x
> releases don't have the vulnerability.
>

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